This has been a busy weekend of acquiring aviation footage, which saw me spending full days at an airport and at an Air Force base.

Friday, it was four vintage bomber planes (one was a pursuit plane, the P-51 Mustang) and Sunday was the Great New England Air Show at Westover ARB in Chicopee,

A couple of weekends ago, I attended a horse show, mainly as a spectator and to get a feel for equestrian events. I brought my trusty XDCam EX with me and recorded about 2-1/2 hours of footage over the course of the morning and part of the afternoon.

 

I shot some footage

This was a decision long in coming. Back in February, we got the first PMW-EX1 and I found myself an unwitting beta tester for Sony. Two trips to Sony service later, all the bugs are pretty much worked out (the battery drainage issue is 95% improved, but not down to zero) and the camera is doing